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The nation’s largest voting equipment vendor has for at least nine years coaxed state and local elections officials to serve on an “advisory board” that gathers twice annually for company-sponsored conferences, including one last year at a ritzy Las Vegas…

Flanagan Lake, a flood-control and recreational lake nine years in the making, officially opened at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday against a backdrop of sparkling blue water dotted with kayaks.

"It's entirely possible that as the company grows, so will our Omaha office and our Chicago office," Sean Connolly, president and chief executive of Conagra, told The World-Herald on Wednesday. "Omaha is critical to our overall success" as the company…

Tuesday around 12:40 p.m., officers were dispatched to a residence on South 42nd Street just south of Harrison Street over an unresponsive man.

The fire near North 90th and Boyd Streets in the Keystone neighborhood was reported around 5:15 p.m., officials said.

Douglas County 911 dispatchers said the man fell about 12 feet around 7:25 a.m. Wednesday while on the roof of a home just south of 156th and Pacific Streets.

The stabbing was reported around 1:50 a.m. Wednesday at Big Jim's near North 30th Street and Ames Avenue.

The crash occurred around 9:20 p.m. Tuesday near 221st Street and Barrus Road east of Mineola in Mills County.

The new bridge spans from the southeast corner of the former Creighton campus on the west and aligns with the pedestrian mall on the Creighton campus to the east.

The weather service said Omaha's official rainfall total for 2018 at Eppley Airfield as of Tuesday was 13.33 inches, slightly below the normal total by June 26 of 14.83 inches.